The Yank

I did find an article in Billboard about "Bob" Bateman from January, 1966 but it also included a lot of info about other producers. However, this article from Record World (November 27, 1965) shows things were in progress earlier-

From Record World (Feb. 16, 1965) -

Here's another Andre WIlliams/ Myto Music/ Detroit recording that ended up with a Mercury label-

There were a few Steve Claytons in the record biz (according to discogs). I'm not sure which one made this 45 but i have feeling this is a Pop record.

One more for the list -

There was also a short lived label -

As far as I can tell, "Bring It On Home To Me' was released in March of 1972. I know the label lists Pac-3 as being in Detroit but this Billboard article has Pac 3 in Dearborn. Were there 2 Pac-3 Studions?

Here's the results from earlier today. All 45's are U.S. issues except where noted. Prices are in pounds- Connie Clark- "My Sugar Baby" - Joker - 1617 Ernie Johnson- "I Can't Stop The Pain" Artco- 1529 James Barnett- "Keep On Talkin' " _ Fame- 422 Nick C. /Chateaux- "These Good Times" Bay Sound- 365 Westbound Freeway- "Right Or Wrong" - Fraternity- 110 Gary Haines- "Keep On Going" Sound- 428 Ve-Shelles- "Shingaling" - Boola Boola- 151 Minnie Jones/ Minuettes- "Shadow Of A Memory" -Sugar- 967 Diane Lancaster- "How I Need Him" Polydor U.K. DJ- 280 Lightnin' Hopkins/ Ruth Ames-"Finally Met My Baby" - Herald DJ - 114 Billy Hoke- "I Wonder" - DW- 90 MB's- Another Day" -B-Jet- 784 Debbie Dean- "Everybody's Talkin' About My Baby- Motown with pic sleeve- 105 Vows- "When A Boy Loves A Girl" - Sta-Set- 161 Milton Jones- "Like A Rolling Stone" - Satiron- 665 Oscar Perry/ Love Generators- "I Got What You Need" Peri-Tone - 315 Freddie Williams- "I Got To Live While I Can" -418 Pacesetters- "I'm Gonna Make It" - Minit DJ- 445

I have never come across Maltese Records in Chicago but I have found a few Stephanye 45's (Shirley J. Scott and the Prophets) .

Not sure if Irv was born in Detroit but, this article makes it seems like he had been working in the area for years-

The flip side to "Unsatisfied" is a dismal little tune. Making it worse is the fact this was the intended A side-

Another "Joe The Grinder" song -

The Everest label was founded in 1958 by the Belock Instrument Corp. in New York . In 1962, the label was sold and the new owner moved the label to Los Angeles. I think that's why there was some confusion about where Alcor was based. There is no correlation between Alcor Steel and the Everest label .

The Fleetwood release was very likely first- Fleetwood was based in Massachusetts and the group appears to from the East Coast. I don't think the title had anything to do with the record being so hard to find. It looks like the record was released in late July/ early August of '66 which was when Motown started talks with Golden World. Golden World probably decided not to promote it.

I agree - if the big chains did carry cutout Soul 45's there might be a small table with a few hundred 45's sealed in plastic or you could buy a mystery box of 45's at a better price -

A few more- Eddie Holland- "Jamie" Arthur Alexander- "Anna" Hollywood Flames- "Elizabeth" Mable John - "Able Mable" Lou Courtney - "Hey Joyce"

Servicemen- "Connie", Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers- "Malinda" , Drifters - "Aretha", Wilson Pickett- "Deborah" and another Stevie Wonder - "Angie Girl".

I'm not an expert on Motown foreign releases but this looks like an "unofficial release". According to the Don't Forget The Motor City" website, the song was cut on June 08,1966 so I don't know where the "13/2/66" date comes in. It looks nice but I suspect someone pressed up these copies.

Just wanted to make a minor correction to an earlier post . Tammi Terrell was signed to Motown in 1965, the company released her first single in November of that year (#27 on the list) -

ROB ?????

Here's a list from Record World of showing current singles in alphabetical order with "How Can I..." on Caneil -

Not sure why Caneil isn't considered a "real label". I don't think any U.S. Pop Music stations would have been playing bootlegs in the 60's . The single is at #63-

Not sure if this is a remix/ remake but the original version is -

I agree with you that Boston took it's time adding "This Can't Be True", but I think you should cut Baltimore some slack. Not sure where you got the Baltimore list in your 1st post ( from some Pop station in the city?) but one of Baltimore's biggest Soul stations was playing "This ..." much earlier. And since it was Top 5 on the chart, they were probably playing a month or so before that-

According to the liner notes of the "Boy Meets Girl" album, recording sessions took place at the following studios- Fame Studios- Muscle Shoals, United Sound- Detroit, Terra Shirma- Detroit, Ardent Studios- Memphis. A majority of the tracks (according to the liner notes) were produced by Al Bell, Isaac Hayes or Booker T. Jones. Don Davis was listed as one of the producers on these songs- "Hold On This Time" - William Bell and Mavis Staples, "It's Unbelievable..." - Pervis Staples and Carla Thomas, "Strung Out" - William Bell and Mavis Staples. These are the ones I think are the most likely to have used Terra Shirma or United Sound. But any of the producers listed could have had their sessions in Detroit.